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(No Model.) N. CAMPBELL.

1 JOURNAL BOX FOR SNOW SWEEPERS. I 1 Patented Jan. 5, 1886.

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4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEIL CAMPBELL, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE BROOKLYN RAIL \VAY SUPPLY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

JOURNAL-BOX FOR SNOW-SWEEPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,596, dated January 5, 1886.

Application filed March 24, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NEIL CAMPBELL, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Journal-Boxes for Snow-Sweepers, of which the following is a specification.

In an application for patent of even date herewith, and marked Case B, I have de 3 scribed an apparatus whereby an obliquelyplaced rotary broom may be lifted and lowered by means of levers connected by rods to the journal-boxes or other portions connected with the ends of the broom-shaft.

The presentinvention relates to a peculiarlyconstructed journal-box, which may be advantageously employed for receiving that end of the broom-shalt which is remote from the driving mechanism. The improved box is a single casting, and forms not only the bearing for the shalt, but has a grease-box, means for attaching the lifting-rod, and a lug formed with an eye, whereby it is guided upon a vertically-extending bar. 7

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification, and represent what I consider the best means of carrying out my invention.

Figure l is a longitudinal section. Fig. 2

0 is an end view seen from the side on which the shaft enters. Fig. 3 is an end view seen from the opposite side, and Fig. 4 is a plan.

The main body A of the box is formed with the hole or bore for receiving the end or journal B of the broom-shaft B. At the mouth of the bore is an enlarged portion, a, into which is fitted the collar or flange B of the shaft B. This arrangement not only tends to-prevent the entrance of dust and other 0 foreign bodies to the journal B proper, but

also retards to some extent the loss of lubricating material in case such material should have been supplied somewhat too liberally.

From the main body A projectsin a lateral 5 direction the lug A, having a hole, a, which, when the box is put in place upon the machine, receives a guiding-rod to guide the box in its upward and downward movements.

Above the main bodyA is formed agreasebox, A which does not, however, extend the Serial No. 159,915. (No model.)

entire length of the casting. It communicates through one or more holes, a with the interior of the main body,whereby the journal is kept properly supplied with lubricating material.

A suitable quantity of the latter is placed in the box A which is then preferably closed by a cover, (1*. The sides of the boxA are extended forward and considerably thickened,

as shown at A forming lugs between which may be received the operating bar, (not shown,) by which the box may be raised and lowered on the sweeper. Said bar is preferably pivoted to the lugs A by a pin (not shown) extending through the holes (1 I claim as my invention- 6 1. A box, A, cast closed at one end and having at the mouth of its bore an enlarged annular recess, in combination witha shaft,

B, having a journal and a flange fitting, respectively, the bore and the recess of the box, said flange entering and filling the annular recess and cutting off thejournal within the box from any and all communication with the exterior, substantially as described.

2. A box, A, having a lateral lug. A, with aguide-h ole, a,all so constructed and arranged as to be capable of sliding on a vertical guiderod, substantially as herein specified.

3. A box, A, cast with a U-shaped raised portion at its upper surface, said U-shaped portion having a transverse partition, whereby a grease-box, A and lugs A for receiving a. suspension-rod, are formed, substantially as herein specified.

4. A box, A, having a lateral lug, A, with 8 a guide-hole, a, capable of receiving avertical guide-rod, and a lug or lugs A by which it may be suspended, substantially as described.

5. A box, A. having a lateral lug A, with a guide-hole, c, a lug or lugs, A by which it 0 may be suspended, and a grease-box, A communicating with the bore of the main body. all cast in one piece, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing wit- 5 nesses.

NEIL CAMPBELL. VVitnesses:

G. STORMS CARPENTER, A. H. GENTNEE. 

